Re: Security message and disappearing folder contents

From: Karl Levinson, mvp (levinson_k_at_despammed.com)
Date: 12/26/04

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    It's always important to write down and post the full word for word error
    message. Either that's not the real error message, or that's not a real
    Windows error message and you're infected with something. The first thing I
    would do if I had the exact error message is search www.google.com for that
    error message.

    This may also help:

    http://securityadmin.info/faq.asp#hacked

    If that doesn't help, there's a good chance this isn't a security problem
    and you'd get a better answer posting in another group.

    "AJ" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:076e01c4ea0b$ee815650$a301280a@phx.gbl...
    > From time to time, I'm having a problem that I'm hoping
    > someone can shed some light on (Dell Latitude 860, SP4, W2K):
    > when I click on, say, a film file in one of my folders, I
    > get some sort of security script message ('file has
    > changed, do you want to accept script?') and then the
    > folder contents disappear and I get a tiny little box with a
    > little dot in the middle, barely discernable, in the upper
    > left corner. All folders revert to this and I have to
    > reboot to get back the folder contents. A few desktop icons
    > also move and the 'my documents' icon disappears completely
    > (until rebooting).


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